Indecision is like the stepchild: If he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting water.
Indecision is like the stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.
Iron does not clang by itself.
It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by, and is no more.
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
Love is just like rice -- plant it elsewhere and it grows.
Love is like young rice: transplanted, still it grows.
Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.
Money is like a guest: it comes today, leaves tomorrow.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.
Only thin dogs become wild.
Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.
Roosters' tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.
